"CW" wrote in
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Laminate flooring is typically laid with 1/4" gap at the wall. If you
put it up against the wall, it will buckle when it expands (I've seen
it done). As it is meant to float anyway, cutouts around appliances
are not a problem. If you glue it down, it will have expansion
problems. Before you do this, get the manufacturers installation
instructions. They all have them. The warranty is void if those
instructions are not fallowed. Also, make sure that there is enough
clearance to get things out (such as a built in dishwasher). It would
be a pain to have to tear out the flooring to replace a dishwasher.


It really is, as some good friends of ours found out. Only it wasn't a
floating laminate floor, but a ceramic tile in an old-school mud base.
Turned a $900 dishwasher into something much more expensive and stressful.
They ended up tearing up the tile countertop to get it in.

A floating floor can be a really good thing, sometimes.

Patriarch